New Endoscopic Tools for Special Indications

More recent endoscopic developments have created highly innovative techniques and new technology for replacing surgical procedures such as tumor resections, myotomies and bypassing malignant stenoses. A number of new ideas and technologies around endoscopic tools are emerging to improve diagnostic accuracy and therapeutic efficacy of procedures. This chapter will focus on a few of these new endoscopic tools for special indications such as the camera cap for additional cameras in diagnostic colonoscopy, an external additional working channel connected to the scope for additional instruments, a multi-size bouginage system, and several 3D-printed prototypes of endoscopic manipulator systems. The term “Endoneering” stands for a combination of endoscopy and engineering, which was coined to characterize the new cooperation between engineers and endoscopists, which is very fruitful in developing interventional endoscopy.